Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Ni… Read Full Bio ↴Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Rota was born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi on 3 December 1911, into a musical family in Milan. Rota was a renowned child prodigy—his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926. He studied at the Milan conservatory there under Giacomo Orefice and then undertook serious study of composition under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, graduating in 1930.
Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz Reiner and had Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition. Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the Renaissance composer Gioseffo Zarlino. Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978.
Rota had one daughter, Nina Rota, from a relationship with pianist Magda Longari. He died, age 67, from a coronary thrombosis in Rome.
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
Rota was born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi on 3 December 1911, into a musical family in Milan. Rota was a renowned child prodigy—his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926. He studied at the Milan conservatory there under Giacomo Orefice and then undertook serious study of composition under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, graduating in 1930.
Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini, Rota moved to the United States where he lived from 1930 to 1932. He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz Reiner and had Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition. Returning to Milan, he wrote a thesis on the Renaissance composer Gioseffo Zarlino. Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978.
Rota had one daughter, Nina Rota, from a relationship with pianist Magda Longari. He died, age 67, from a coronary thrombosis in Rome.
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31Suite dal balletto "La Strada" (1966): 1. Nozze in campagna. "É arrivato Zampanò"3:44Giuseppe Bodanza
32Suite dal balletto "La Strada" (1966): 2. I tre suonatori e il "Matto" sul filo6:10Giuseppe Bodanza
33Suite dal balletto "La Strada" (1966): 3. Il circo (Il numero di Zampanò - I giocolieri - Il violino del "Matto")4:54Giuseppe Bodanza
35Suite dal balletto "La Strada" (1966): 5. Zampanò uccide il "Matto". Gelsomina impazzisce di dolore2:50Giuseppe Bodanza
36Suite dal balletto "La Strada" (1966): 6. L'ultimo spettacolo sulla neve. "Addio Gelsomina"4:52Giuseppe Bodanza
38Concerto per Archi (1964-65, versione 1977): I. Preludio. Allegro ben moderato e cantabile4:05Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
39Concerto per Archi (1964-65, versione 1977): II. Scherzo. Allegretto comodo4:16Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
40Concerto per Archi (1964-65, versione 1977): III. Aria. Andante quasi adagio3:00Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
41Concerto per Archi (1964-65, versione 1977): IV. Finale. Allegrissimo4:03Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
42Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 1. Valzer Brillante (G. Verdi, strumentazione N. Rota)2:22Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
43Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 2. Mazurka1:48Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
44Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 3. Controdanza2:29Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
45Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 4. Polka1:30Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
46Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 5. Quadriglia1:53Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
47Ballabili per il film "Il Gattopardo" (1963) (revisione a cura di Nicola Scardicchio): 6. Galop1:44Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
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